An Eye for an Eye
Need to Know An Eye for an Eye “An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind,” is one of Mohandas […]
Pottery Barn Rule Redux
Need to Know Pottery Barn Rule Redux As the United States plans to deploy 560 more American soldiers to help the Iraqi […]
A Running Start
Need to Know A Running Start Theresa May is Britain’s new Iron Lady. And it wasn’t long after Conservative Party members anointed […]
Troubled Waters
Need to Know Troubled Waters When Wang Zhenzhong looks to the ocean, he sees China. “For thousands of years, fishermen have fished […]
Asia’s Brexit moment
Need to Know Asia’s Brexit moment Japan is on track to deliver another momentous political change to today’s tumultuous geopolitics. On Sunday, […]
July 8, 2016
July 8, 2016 NEED TO KNOW Blue Lives Matter The killings just won’t stop. Reeling from a series of mass shootings, the […]
July 7, 2016
July 7, 2016 NEED TO KNOW Tensions, New and Old Leaders of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) are meeting in Warsaw […]
July 6, 2016
July 6, 2016 NEED TO KNOW Hair shirts for spies Medieval penitents used to suffer in itchy hair shirts as a way […]
July 5, 2016
July 5, 2016 NEED TO KNOW North Korea: How Bad Is It? North Korea appears to have achieved a worrying capability following […]
July 4, 2016
July 4, 2016 EDITOR'S NOTE Today is Independence Day in America, the 240th anniversary of its birth as a new nation. July […]
July 1, 2016
July 1, 2016 NEED TO KNOW No BoJo Means No With former London Mayor Boris Johnson, aka BoJo, out of the race […]
June 30, 2016
June 30, 2016 NEED TO KNOW The Duterte Show Goes Live Rodrigo Duterte was inaugurated Thursday as president of the Philippines following […]
June 29, 2016
June 29, 2016 NEED TO KNOW Taking a Step Back? When the North American Free Trade Agreement took effect in 1994, it […]
June 28, 2016
June 28, 2016 NEED TO KNOW Lessons From Victory It took a month but Iraqi forces with the aid of the United […]
May 16, 2016
NEED TO KNOW Duterte’s Balancing Act The United States could be out of an ally when Rodrigo Duterte takes over as president […]
May 13, 2016
NEED TO KNOW After Rousseff, More Turmoil for Brazil? Brazil’s first woman president abandoned the presidential palace Thursday morning. But the impeachment […]
May 12, 2016
May 12, 2016 NEED TO KNOW Iraq: Who's in Control? In Iraq, there are many people with many grievances: Protestors in the […]
May 12, 2016
May 12, 2016 NEED TO KNOW Iraq: Who's in Control? In Iraq, there are many people with many grievances: Protestors in the […]
May 11, 2016
May 11, 2016 NEED TO KNOW Burundi and Rwanda: Trouble Again The specter of conflict between the African nations of Burundi and […]
May 10, 2016
May 10, 2016 NEED TO KNOW New Act in Greek Drama The never-ending drama over Greece's public finances entered another phase over […]
May 9, 2016
May 9, 2016 NEED TO KNOW The Orwellian Pursuit of 'The Other' An economics professor on his way to deliver a lecture […]
May 6, 2016
May 6, 2016 NEED TO KNOW Panama Papers: More to Come The journalists behind the Panama Papers exposé of offshore tax havens […]
May 5, 2016
May 5, 2016 NEED TO KNOW The Irrepressible Egyptians Five years ago, most of the world was caught off-guard after hundreds of […]
May 4, 2016
May 4, 2016 NEED TO KNOW India's Stubborn Rape Culture In India, it's unfortunately an all-too-common scenario: A brutal rape. A gruesome […]